American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

“Metropolis has developed a new growth buyout model, demonstrating how innovation and technology can evolve legacy industries for the 21st century,” said Tony Minella, Co-Founder and President of E ldridge Industries , an existing investor in Metropolis that led the recent financing transaction. The financing included $1.05

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Justin Kan’s Goat Capital led the financing round which also welcomed participation from FoundersX, Rebel Fund and some existing investors, including Y Combinator and Byld Ventures. Anchor, a Nigerian banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, has raised $2.4 million in seed investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. With no revenue three years in and an ever-increasing pile of expenses, my personal finances took a hit. Loans replaced savings, and credit lines were stretched to their limits.

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The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 1, 2020

Having invested in over 30 companies and participated in more than 90 financing rounds, Ham has witnessed many different situations and evaluated companies at different times in their financing history. Simply put, the investor is asking if you will invest additional funds in the company. Let’s see if we can figure out why.

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Dream It

JULY 12, 2021

In this Dreamit Dose, Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit, gives you his breakdown and tells you what issues to avoid on these early-stage financing instruments. You’ll learn 6 key points to be prepared and ready the next time you’re structuring a convertible note or SAFE financing.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

Over the last 18 months, the early-stage financing market has seen dramatic changes characterized by these three things: A shift from in-person fundraising to virtual fundraising A reduction in financing process timelines from months to weeks A continued increase in the amount of capital available for early stage companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Her guests include the women driving innovation, evolution and revolution in every industry imaginable—including IT, fitness, marketing, nutrition, finance and fashion. Heidi talks brand, innovation, fundraising, financing and the myth of balance. At the very core of Kalika’s work is the belief that empowered women empower women.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Our team is planning to submit a formal request for Apple to allow its users to earn crypto and see a list of decentralized finance apps. We'll keep you updated on what we hear back. — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) September 11, 2020. Coinbase, Epic, and Spotify are not alone in their struggles with Apple and Google.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most commonly they are a bridge to a round of financing with new investors (outsiders). That is a real round of financing and it is not a bridge. While that can sometimes be the right answer for a startup, I strongly prefer bringing new investors/new capital into a company in every financing round.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 2, 2024

The Singapore-founded personal finance and shopping platform Heymax.ai has secured US$2.6 million in a seed funding round. This investment was led by January Capital, with additional participation from Tenity, Ascend […]

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And, wherever you find entrepreneurs, you will find investors looking to finance those entrepreneurs. This series of articles is written for fund managers who are creating these new sources of entrepreneur-focused capital today, and those who aspire to start funds in the near future.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 12, 2020

My partner Albert told me that when you factor in the financing costs of this swap, the average home in the Northeast United States could save $1000 to $2000 a year by doing this swap. It has gotten less expensive to do this swap out as solar and heat pump costs have come down.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

Can you expand on where you got your passion for personal finance management? This entire journey helped me to uncover my love for personal finance and I wanted to help others do the same. Additionally, I was awarded a travel grant in 2019 to attend a major financial conference in the United States.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

But I am writing again as there is likely to be a bunch of chatter about Dapper, Flow, and NBA Top Shot as the news of a financing round comes out today. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. That got our attention and led to a financing that spun out the team and Cryptokitties into Dapper Labs.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Many years ago I joined the board of a company after my angel group became the lead investor in the company’s seed financing round. As part of my compensation for being a board member, the company issued me restricted stock.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2015

Small world, it turns out I also knew his husband from the finance world having met him over 10 years ago. After Bradford left, I reached out to him and asked him to get dinner. I wanted to hear his lessons learned and help him figure out his next thing. We had a great chat and stayed in touch.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. This deep integration streamlines operations and provides business owners with greater visibility and control over their finances. Mercury has reimagined this central hub by embedding essential business tools directly into the account experience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. Madhavan Sivashankar is the CEO and founder of Gulf International Finance Limited , a regulated firm based in the Dubai International Finance Centre. Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. .

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Africa’s fastest-growing fintech, successfully raised US$110 million in equity financing, supporting its all-in-one financial ecosystem. Investors recognize the growth potential and impact of this rapidly rising fintech providing digital payments and banking solutions across Africa. Moniepoint Inc.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained. With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Powerpoint creation, data analysis Lawyers 0.8

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What advice would you give to entrepreneurs and professionals looking to finance their business? Here are Michael’s expanded answers to the most asked questions about these issues, including links to some of our past articles to help elaborate on these themes. . Where can startups find money to launch their businesses?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 17, 2020

Is this you? The Avoider does not want to talk about money and goes out of their way to not approach their finances. Advice for better money management: Take control of your finances. Getting more comfortable about the realities of your finances is important. The Avoider.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 8, 2025

Gary Vaynerchuk to finance people trying to get get people to invest in their funds try to create content that may be funny and storytelling but at the same time all know can translate into more sales later down the line. Google rewards legit good and high quality content.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

Today, the company announced closing $1M in additional seed financing. With the platform pressure tested by over five thousand users a month across multiple large healthcare facilities, this financing will enable TrekIT to focus on customer acquisition and filling key sales and customer-facing roles as more accounts go online.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Maintaining tight control over your finances will help you navigate the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial journey. Did you mismanage your finances? Stay adaptable, manage your finances carefully, and never forget the importance of persistence and self-care. Was the product-market fit wrong?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Alex Haro says that when they only had a few weeks of runway left and weren’t sure if their next round of financing was going to close, they tried every crazy idea they could think of. While most people tell entrepreneurs that they need to “focus,” sometimes a downturn is the right time to explore and try all avenues.

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Over the last couple decades, angel investing has become a more serious form of finance. It seems like more now than ever before, if you tell a distant relative that you are an angel investor, they will say “oh I’ve heard of that” rather than give you a blank stare and assume you are talking about church choir.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

And they finance the trend that they are directionally correct about. There is no question that crypto is in yet another speculative bubble, but like I said, it is speculative bubbles that allow emerging technologies to go mainstream and finance themselves. Startups and the investors who finance them benefit from all of this.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The discussions will cover finance, retail, government, education, entertainment, and technology sectors on each of the show’s nine stages. This year’s event promises to deliver even more practical business applications and innovative solutions,” said Caroline Hicks, Senior Event Director for The AI Summit Series.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Leverage Financing Options Strategically Sometimes, external financing can help bridge short-term cash flow gaps. Invoice Financing Allows businesses to get immediate cash for unpaid invoices. Evaluate different financing options based on your needs and repayment capacity to avoid financial strain.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

What was it like seeing some folks raise tens of millions of dollars, and where has your financing mostly come from? From a financing perspective, to borrow from Peter Thiel I believe there is now more clarity between those who invest in and operate in the “bits” space vs. the “atoms” space.

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